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20 | she/her Unapologetic Grateful Dead and Phish autist. Talk to me about Deltarune Discord: the_it_tower

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

CNN@cnn.com · 24h ago

"At a time when no American celebrity seems immune from the country’s many divisions, Dolly Parton was a crossover icon who stayed neutral in the culture wars while still speaking her mind," writes Zachary B. Wolf. | Analysis

FYI the HUGE number of AI slop at GamesCom's opening night live is not a sign that the industry has normalized AI. It's a ploy to make you believe that. These games are all by the same 3 or 4 publishers. This is a concerted effort to make consumers accept AI.

donald trump is busy humiliating the US in 10 different ways simultaneously and the democrats are spending their time condemning a twitch streamer. i know they're increasingly unpopular but that there's anyone who still thinks they're a real opposition party boggles the mind. boggles

10 Years Ago it was the western gamer past time to shit on and degrade japanese games (less so nintendo first party IPs but even then they were given the accusation of being childish) to the point where various jp devs are like We Have To Make Our Games Less Japanese it's kinda like clockwork

neighnbinary@voxybunch.bsky.social · 13h ago

okay since people seem to think I'm strawmanning or "being defensive"(I'm not even interested in any of the cn games that were shown at gamescon lmao), here are some comments I found in like two minutes (bonus shots at south korea too)

the single most serious sign of a culture's poverty is when it starts demanding the abolition of innocence. children should be allowed to be loud and annoying, teenagers should be allowed to be messy and stupid, early transition should give people room to be cringe rather than serious and jaded

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

lowkey so funny how ppl refuse to move off of that site because it has "reach" when it actively prevents people from accessing it unless u have an account on it

Some people might not be aware, but it is entirely possible that without Dolly Parton we wouldn’t have had a COVID vaccine. She partly funded Moderna’s research and gave the largest individual contribution to make it all happen. Just gives you an idea of the kind of person she was.

I think that Dolly Parton was, for a lot of people, an ambassador of the "good" values people think of about the South: kindness, hospitality, can-do spirit, sharp and witty and down to earth. I think for a segment of people, too, she was theantithesis of a lot of noxious masculine country stuff.

Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · yesterday

I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially